Hola Rik...you are right when you say ..."They have a sound that makes me want to listen for hours; that warm lower mid-range and the detail"...this ML feature is one of the most important, and also ML gives to us the feeling of the musician(s), and they are playing for us right there in our own room. Because we are music lovers, I better say musician(s) lovers, ML makes possible to listen any of the performer(s) at the stage. We can choose to listen the bass player, the drummer, the guitar, the piano, the flute, the cello, the violin, the singers behind the main artist, any musical instrument(s), and can discriminate all the other(s) and just listen the one that we want. And this one that we had choosen, we can listen the way that he or she is playing, we can get easelly their feeling, the way that plays...our brain is important here, because you have to teach it how to do this, and with ML sound is very easy. The sound of ML does not produce any ear fatigue, and we can listening for hours and hours, getting the same results, no matter the quality of the recording, wich is very evident right away at the first chord. Also due to the large panel, the sound dispersion is different than a cone speaker. ML does not need to play the music too loud to get the right size of the instrument(s), another factor for the long hearing sessions. There are a lot of noise that our ears detect that comes from other speakers, that ML does not produce. Beacuse the ML diaphragm is so light, the inertia of the cone speakers (as an example) produces some air movement that is not part of the music, the lack of this unwanted noise is evident, and we detect that too. ML is not perfect, but there is no perfect speaker. The minor flaws that ML has is the best buy in the market place, regardless of price IMHO. If we don´t feel this, why is that we have a ML fans club? Happy listening, and keep enjoying your wonderful sound!!!
Roberto.